MODELL 213 CHEESE KNIFE

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JOSEF HOFFMANN; AUSTRIA
MODELL 213 CHEESE KNIFE
designed 1904, executed by Alfred Mayer for the Wiener Werkstätte, white metal
6½in.(16.5cm.) length
Impressed Viennese poinçon, WW, JH, AM, Rosemark

Literature

Cf: Der Preis Der Schönheit. Zum 100. Geburtstag der Wiener Werkstätte, exhib.cat., MAK, Vienna, 2003, p.82, cat,no.M17 (designs from same service illustrated)
See also: Michael Huey (ed.); Viennese Silver: Modern Design 1780-1910, Ostfildern, 2003, p.222, cat.no.178

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Lot Essay

"No other product from the Wiener Werkstätte", writes Christian Witt-Doering, "elicited such vehement reactions as the 'flat' cutlery model". Amongst its enthusiastic admirers was Ludwig Hevesi, who, after dining with the Waerndorfers in 1905, claimed "a sauce spoon could serve as the topic for a lecture on logic".
(Christian Witt-Doering: Checklist: Viennese Decorative Arts around 1900, in Renée Price (ed.), New Worlds: German and Austrian Art 1890-1940, Cologne, 2001, p.463)

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